Matsuno and Seike, Japanese veneered marbles

[shiroaiko]

I acquired an original bag of pinchers recently. It was actually a gift from @chigasaki_seaglass (Instagram) when I purchased some marbles from him. The brand was Camel/Matsuno from Osaka. This was the first time I’d seen pinchers in this packaging. They were mixed with other common types of Matsuno cats such as white cross-throughs and 4-vanes with a center opening. They are all peewees ranging from 12 to 13 mm.

The poly bag has a slit which was caused by age deteriaration, so the marbles are taken out from this opening. 

The below is a package for export which houses slightly larger 13-14 mm Chinese Checker Marbles. 

Something nice is the black ones show a cool kind of purple when light comes through. 

Another type of veneered marble that is made in Osaka is Seike's. They commonly have tiny white bits in the white, and the cutlines are somewhat different from Camel pinchers as you can see. I also have some good pictures of Wale's variegated marbles that were kindly shared with me by @Pinx some time ago, but I haven't asked permission to post them yet🙏 (just being lazy.) 

 

Edited Saturday at 07:39 AM by shiroaiko
I found redundancy in one part of the passage, so I deleted the part.

[akroorka]

17 hours ago, shiroaiko said:

(just being lazy.) 

 

Great stuff here shiroaiko,

A great share!

I get lazy too--today I am quite lazy but my fingers still work.

I was never a typist--click, click, click, one by one😁.

[Ric]

Thanks for posting this, Aiko. It's nice to finally get some definitive information about these marbles. This 40 ct. box of 9/16" Matsuno's was packaged with the Ohio Arts Chinese Checkers game. We called the marbles "Mt. Fujis"back in the day. 🙂

[tkt]

cool.those seike’s are nice looking

[shiroaiko]

@akroorka Thanks! Then I was not the only one who felt a bit lazy yesterday. 😃

@Ric Do you mean you play with the very Chinese Checker marbles as a child? If it is so, what year was it?

I also have Matsuno marbles which just look like "Mt. Fuji with the sun".  They are fun.

@tkt Thanks, seikes are also nice-looking marbles! Although I don't have one in my collection, some appear to come with green aventurine.